"Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me".

I hate that - it just gives license to people to keep on being Lucy with the football. I don't care if Eleanor Roosevelt did say it, it's always bothered me!

W. flop line.

"People in glass houses should never throw stones" had me stumped for the longest time. Not sure at what age I finally got it, but it was when I heard my mother repeat it about someone she felt was a hypocrite. I think I was a teenager.

but words will never hurt me.

it's like saying, "your words don't hurt me, but hey! try these sticks and stones!"

which people seem to take to mean, hey, if she cheats on me, then it's perfectly fine for me to cheat on her.

uh, no.

no it isn't.

some couples reach an "understanding", but then it isn't actually "cheating".
if it's "cheating", then it's not ok.
period.


of course, my father always insisted it's properly "what's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander", meaning, either way, your goose is cooked!

"Never?" Really?

Sure.

Always falsely attributed to Winston Churchill, who never said such a thing.

Very ageist, in my opinion. The older I get, the more liberal I get.

And I have a brain.

Benjamin Disraeli

I was totally disgusted and knew it couldn't possibly be true.

And I likewise get more liberal the older I get.

Just about the stupidest thing ever said. Lightning is more likely to strike the same place than not. Lightning is electricity, which always follows the path of least resistance. And air is a very poor conductor of electricity.

If he's thirsty, he'll drink!

But the adage is true because you can't MAKE him drink.

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How would a horse know what that is?

(That reminds me of a scene from "Goodfellas" where top mobsters are meeting at a farmhouse in upstate New York; and one of the limo drivers is telling a cow to "get the hell away from the car"..but the cow doesn't move, so he pulls out a gun and aims it at the cow, and then the cow moves)

If that is not wrong, then this one is: Many hands make light work.

It can't be both ways.

I never heard that one before.

Thinking back, I was a selfish child who should have helped out more.

No, actually it is what it isn't.

I guess you can pull yourself down by your bootstraps, maybe?

But not up.

It's an obnoxious saying as it is, but the fact that it is describing something that cannot actually happen makes it all the worse.

more than once.

Pure right-wing Republican bullshit!
(People never actually need financial help from their government..ever!)

not true

Not much of an improvement.

The last thing you want to do is become dehydrated when you have a fever.

My jury isn't out...(I believe in "karma&quot

Put in a biblical perspective:
"As ye sow, also shall ye reap"

My mothers favorite saying

No kid on the planet has ever believed that one.


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"You won't be satisfied until you put someone's eye out!"
Never take that advice. The results are worse than unsatisfying.

Never heard of that happening. Who was the little demon who made that up anyway?!?

Makes no sense..

(Perhaps Fred Drumpf made that one up?)

Absolute bullshit!

(btw, your signature line describes tRump & his idiot followers perfectly)

"He'd bitch he you hung him with a new rope." Meaning he complains about any/every thing.

It's only funny because it cannot be true.

Sometimes you can be maimed beyond fixing. Or you could die.

How about opposites?
The squeaky wheel gets the grease.
The nail that sticks up gets hammered down.

Violence never solves anything. Last time I checked,World War II (not to mention many other wars) was pretty violent.

Not advocating violence, but it is what it is.